Over a three-day period, 11 child victims and 11 adult victims of sexual exploitation were recovered in the Denver area in the FBI's Operation Cross Country.
Nearly two dozen adult and child sex trafficking victims were rescued in the Denver metro area by the FBI Denver’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force and more than 40 agencies across the Front Range in August as part of a national operation to rescue people exploited by human trafficking.
In addition to the victims, 27 missing or endangered children were located, and six traffickers were identified. Two were arrested on unrelated felony warrants. “No person, let alone a child, should ever be exploited as an item for sale,” said FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Michael Schneider. “Child sex traffickers often prey upon our community’s most vulnerable minors — runaways, foster kids, and victims of abuse. The traffickers promise their young victims they will receive care and support when that couldn’t be further from the truth.
In one of the child victim cases, a minor had ingested fentanyl, and when officials rescued her, they were able to administer Narcan and save her life, Schneider said.
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